Sentence examples for through belittling from inspiring English sources
And as noted in the previous step, some people tell jokes to demean a person or group, to control someone through belittling, to deflate someone's achievements, and the like; this latter use of jokes is manipulative, controlling and deliberately targeted to induce harm.
This can be done subtly and unintentionally through occasional belittling comments, to active and malicious "brainwashing" with the intent to replace any love the child may have for the other parent with hate.
Today they're enduring a magnitude of sacrifice, uncertainty and anxiety that trumps what America is going through, not to belittle our hurt, and that serves as a warning and lesson.
All through it, however, George keeps belittling the whole thing and refusing to take it seriously.
So far she's been called a "liberal fascist" and a "traitor", who is "defaming" Pakistan and "belittling the country" through her choice of subject matter.
Without belittling truly challenging situations people are going through, look for the brighter side of the run-of-the-mill situations people tend to complain about, like the weather, a queue, a missed deadline or the like.
"A Serious Man," like "Burn After Reading," is in their bleak, black, belittling mode, and it's hell to sit through.
Swatting away assumptions not only depletes the emotional stores required to push through all the real work I have to get done but also feels unnecessarily belittling of the ambition I harbor.
